Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

The most comprehensive publication of Kodojin beautiful and mysterious a collection of more than 100 paintings with the English translations of h...

For the sake of contraption (like Frost) and of character (like Robinson), John Burt will do a great deal, and his scope and scansion require a gre...

A Concise Companion to MILTON A Concise Companion to Milton provides readers with essential guides to appreciating the works of John Milton, and to...

The quintessential depiction of the Byronic hero is accompanied in this edition by a substantial selection of contextual materials, including Byron...

The Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by a then-unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson. Richard Savage (16971743) was a poet...

Jerome Mazzaro examines Dante's Vita Nuova as an artistic correlative to what Dante conceived as an image of himself. Specifically, he explores the...

A poet's tradition provides him with a sense of community that may be regarded as a necessary condition for poetry. Jenijoy La Belle, who studied w...

Poems ranging from La Jeune Parque and Le Cimetiere marin to occasional and light verse written as letters to friends, dedications in books, and in...

Stately verse.Statius Silvae, thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between 89 and 96 AD. Here the poet congratulates friends, console...

The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern China tells the story of translation in China to a...

Volume IV of the Collected Works of John Ford is the first of two volumes in the series to contain his sole-authored plays. It contains three of hi...

The Bilingual Muse analyzes the work of seven Russian poets who translated their own poems into English, French, German, or Italian. Investigating ...

Geoffrey Chaucer is the best-known and most widely read of all medieval British writers, famous for his scurrilous humour and biting satire against...

John Milton was born in 1608 and in the late 1630s he travelled to the Continent where he met, among others, Galileo and Grotius. A staunch republi...

This book develops key advances in Pound studies, responding to newly available primary sources and recent methodological developments in associate...

Ovid is today best known for his grand epic, Metamorphoses, and elegiac works like the Ars Amatoria and Heroides. Yet he also wrote a Medea, now un...

In this book, first published in 1912 as part of the Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnological Series, Chadwick compares Teutonic and Greek heroic ...

Ted Hughes is one of the most important twentieth-century British poets. This book provides a radical reassessment of his relationship to the Chris...

John Donne was a writer of dazzling extremes. He was a notorious rake and eloquent preacher; he wrote poems of tender intimacy, and lyrics of gross...

Modern readings of the Roman poet Catullus' work have always been constrained by doubts about the surviving text. Does the sequence of our corpus r...

What real role can poetry have in the world? How are its truths created by the words and sounds chosen by the poet and by the way readers respond t...

Ted Hughes wrote in a wide range of modes which were informed by an even wider range of contexts to which his lifetime's reading, interests and exp...

Virgil's Aeneid XI is an important, yet sometimes overlooked, book which covers the funerals following the fierce fighting in Book X and a council ...

John, Lord Hervey (16961743), the confidant of Queen Caroline and antagonist of Alexander Pope, was a government minister, a political pamphleteer ...

The word tortillera means lesbian in EspaÑol. The moniker is familiar to most Spanish speaking cultures, but especially particular to the Cuban exp...

This work is the first academic biography of North Carolina poet laureate James Larkin Pearson (1879-1981).  Using material from Pearsons personal ...

The poetry we call 'alliterative' is recorded in English from the seventh century until the sixteenth, and includes Caedmon's 'Hymn', Beowulf, Sir ...